Liam Weeks is a Lecturer in the Department of Government and Politics at University College Cork and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University.
National affairs
The Queen is dead! Long live the president?
Liam Weeks
19 October 2022
Ireland provides one model for how a presidency can work within a parliamentary system
International
The centre that couldn’t hold
Liam Weeks
13 February 2020
We know what has gone from Irish politics, but it isn’t yet clear what will take its place
A leader for the times?
Liam Weeks
16 June 2017
Ireland’s dizzying rate of change is personified by a new prime minister who heads a precarious administration
International
Ireland’s voters have spoken, but what did they say?
Liam Weeks
8 March 2016
The Irish election failed to produce a clear result, writes Liam Weeks in Cork. A historic realignment of parties could be the most likely consequence
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